My Mother and Father met when she was teaching and he was working in tri-cities area, and as a child I spent many happy summers there with my Grand Parents. […]
Testing Encyclopedia – I
Meta: I am currently working with Chris McMahon on a series of short articles on testing terminology. Of course, we covet your feedback, and would like to open them up […]
Professional Service Firms and Twitter
No, really, those are two different things. Yesterday I read this article on solving the IT turnover crisis. The basic idea is to look at how professional service frims like […]
Four Testing Strategies
I’ve spent a good deal of time lately thinking about how we frame the problem of software testing – and how we solve it. It impacts how we see the […]
The Wikitest Framework
UPDATE: I want to do a post on the importance of limiting ambiguity and making sure you have as much meaningful consensus as possible – a counterbalance to my last […]
Complete, Correct, Consistent, Unambiguous Requirements?
This morning, Shrini Kulkarni sent me an email asking what I thought of requirements based testing approaches. Specifically, his email has this line in it, quoting from a web page:“XXYYY […]
100% Test Automation
A recent post I put out to the Agile-Testing List: The original poster asked:> I have been asked to work out a system to make a 100%> automated testing solution […]
What is a professional?
For the past few years now, I have heard countless exhortations for software testing to become a “professional” community. Generally speaking, those exhortations are a sales pitch – come earn […]
What is a software architect, anyway?
There is an interesting thread on JoelOnSoftware on the subject. Here’s my follow-up question for you: What is a test architect, and do we need them? Or, perhaps more meaningful: […]
Call for Reviewers
I’m working on an article proposal for a respected softare testing publication. If you would like to review (preview!) the work, please drop me an email at matt.heusser@gmail.com. If you’ve […]
Trip Report – San Mateo
I just got back from a conference in San Mateo, California, followed by a short stay in Salem, Oregon. Here’s my version of the skinny, in no particular order. (A) […]
GQM – Yellow Brick Road – II
This is the best response I have read to my earlier GQM Request. It is from James Bach, Originally posted on the Software-Testing Discussion List. Enjoy:I don’t like GQM. Here’s […]
STPCon Draws near ….
I’ll be spending the weekend (or, at least, a lot of it) prepping for the Software Test&Performance Conference in San Mateo, California. If you’ll be there, please shoot me a […]
Goal Question Metric – The Yellow Brick Road?
I posted this on the software-testing email group yesterday. The replies have been fascinating; but I’m curious what you think: Hello Folks. Many people here have heard my own life […]
The Nine Forgettings
“If you measure the wrong thing, and you reward the wrong thing, don’t be surprised if you get the wrong thing.” — Lee Copeland Lee’s talk is about 34 minutes […]
Explaining Exploratory Testing
I’m a big fan of exploratory testing. I believe it can be a much more effective method of software testing than hard-coded automation or manual scripts, both of which suffer […]
Lean-Agile Bacon Driven Programming …
If you’re going to program bacon-driven, it might be better to eat lean bacon. Just a thought.
Bacon-Driven Development!
As most folks know, I am increasingly disappointed in X-Driven-Y. Test Driven Development, the Original X-Driven-Y, was an actual thing that you could do, measure, and see positive results in. […]
WOTD Wins formal support
The Software Division of the American Society for Quality, the Agile Alliance, and the Association for Software Testing are all formally supporting WOTD. At this point, I expect to have […]
WOTD – Update
Calvin College is hosting WOTD, and they have offered the website a permanent home – here. This supersedes the original CFP; I’m moving my blog entry to refer to it. […]